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It long became a staple of the US propaganda to portray Morales as an
individual who does not measure up to the standards normally associated
with his status, and on the fringes the campaign against the Latin
American country’s first indigenous president chronically slips into
downright racism.

After a period of evident restraint, Morales did respond to the US
invectives in an unusually blunt manner in a recent Decolonizaton Day
address (the Decolonizaton Day is Bolivia’s official title for the date
of the discovery of America). He said that, in contrast to the recent
past when Bolivian army and security officers flocked to the US
diplomatic mission in La Paz as the connection used to guarantee a
successful career, these days relations with the U.S. Embassy have
become so bad they are “like a turd.”. According to Morales, now the
police and army staff fear being spotted attending the US embassy as the
majority of Bolivians frown on such contacts and regard US diplomats as
enemies of Bolivia. The former Bolivian governments were heavily
dependent on the US which was practically able to hand out appointments
within the army and police hierarchies, but the current Bolivian
administration managed to put an end to the arrangement.
Morales revisited the US-Bolivian relations when, next day, he spoke
in Santa Cruz at the graduation ceremony for 630 Cuban-trained Bolivian
medical doctors. “Over the past 50 years, the US have cultivated an
asymmetrical, disrespectful, abusive and dominant relationship with
Bolivia”, said Morales. He charged that Washington never wanted Bolivia
on the development path and that the US imposed on his country such
cooperation programs that actually impeded its progress and served to
perpetuate its inferior-partner condition. Morales also touched upon the
theme of the fight against drug trafficking and expressed a view that
Washington’s secret agenda was not aimed at defeating the drug cartels.
Rather, as he explained, the US DEA felt that the flourishing of the
drug business created pretexts for the US meddling and subduing –
ideologically and politically – the Bolivian army and police. The US
hoped to treat Bolivia as “a political pawn” while implementing an
imperial doctrine and, in the settings, to grab control over Bolivia’s
natural resources, held Morales.

The long U.S. use of depleted uranium and cluster bombs is testimony to
an anti-civilian bias in military operations, as is the long tradition
of “we don’t make body counts.” The Iraq war of 2003 was begun with a
“shock and awe” bombing program that was openly designed to terrorize
the leaders and population and encourage surrender. The same was true of
the 1999 escalation of the bombing of Serbia and increased orientation
to attacking civilian facilities. The hegemony of the double standard,
and its partner, hypocrisy, flows from concentrated power, and their
joint success in this modern age that, according to Steven Pinker, is
one of the “Long Peace,” “recivilization” and the rise of our “better
angels” after an unfortunate period like the 1960s. It is a marvelous
illustration of the human capacity for self-deception.

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